Takotsubo syndrome in African-American women with atypical presentations: A single-center experience

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 14-18

  Patel, Himanshu M ^a   Kantharia, Bharat K ^a   Morris, D Lynn ^a   Yazdanfar, Shahriar ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Cardiomyopathy; Heart failure; Women

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; TROPONIN I;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA BALLOON; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE MARKER; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIA; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; QT INTERVAL; RISK FACTOR; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SYNDROME; T WAVE INVERSION; TAKOTSUBO SYNDROME; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; SYNDROME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33846424614     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.21     Document Type: Article

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